# ScrapSquare

> Personal essays and photographs by Sunwoong Joo (주선웅) on culture, travel, long-term car ownership and personal experiences.

Articles are originally written in Korean, with English editions where available. Dates, costs and observations should be read in their original context. The links below lead to complete reading copies with tables, records and photo captions; each copy identifies its canonical web page.

## Archive

- [Ten Years with a Range Rover Maintenance Records and Costs](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/range-rover-10-year-maintenance-records/index.md): There are said to be only two kinds of Range Rover: those on their way into the workshop, and those on their way out. Here are the maintenance records and costs for mine. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/range-rover-10-year-maintenance-records/index.md).
- [Plan: A Graduation Notice, Sixteen Years On](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/plan-sponsorship-graduation/index.md): My child sponsorship through Plan Korea has come to an end. I began in 2010, so it has been close to sixteen years. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/plan-sponsorship-graduation/index.md).
- [Life Member Occasional Mensan](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/mensa/index.md): After years of renewing my membership whenever it crossed my mind, I finally became a life member, a day before Mensa Korea paused new life membership applications. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/mensa/index.md).

## Culture

- [The Hyundai Seoul: Old Masters from Toledo](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/thehyundai-toledo-masterpieces/index.md): Views of Venice and Rome, stories of Constable and Turner, and a lighter side of Goya linger after an exhibition from the Toledo Museum of Art. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/thehyundai-toledo-masterpieces/index.md).
- [Sejong Museum of Art: Beyond Impressionism](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/sejong-beyond-impressionism/index.md): Fifty-two paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts have arrived in Seoul after their showing at Rome's Museo dell'Ara Pacis. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/sejong-beyond-impressionism/index.md).
- [Centre Pompidou Comes to Seoul](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/pompidou-seoul-cubists/index.md): A visit to Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul, as the Paris museum's renovation sends its collection abroad through the Constellation programme. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/pompidou-seoul-cubists/index.md).
- [National Museum of Korea: Collectors of Light](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/lehman-impressionism/index.md): A special exhibition centred on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Robert Lehman Collection, with particularly memorable lighting. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/lehman-impressionism/index.md).
- [Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich: SJMW's 50th Anniversary Concert](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/tonhalle-orchestra-zurich-sjmw-2025/index.md): An evening at the Tonhalle Zürich, where the orchestra joined past and present prizewinners to celebrate fifty years of the Swiss Youth Music Competition. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/tonhalle-orchestra-zurich-sjmw-2025/index.md).
- [Wiener Konzerthaus: Christmas in Vienna 2023](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/christmas-in-vienna-2023/index.md): On a trip to Europe's Christmas markets with my parents, a Christmas concert at the Wiener Konzerthaus left a particular impression. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/christmas-in-vienna-2023/index.md).

## Trip

- [Schloss Schadau: A Castle Hotel on Lake Thun](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/schloss-schadau/index.md): Built in the nineteenth century, Schloss Schadau in Thun, Switzerland, now welcomes hotel guests into interiors that remain largely as they were. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/schloss-schadau/index.md).
- [Her Majesty's Theatre: Where The Phantom of the Opera Opened in 1986](https://scrapsquare.com/en/article/phantom-of-the-opera/index.md): After seeing The Phantom of the Opera on its 25th anniversary tour in Seoul, I went to see the original production in the London theatre where it began. [Korean](https://scrapsquare.com/article/phantom-of-the-opera/index.md).